For the past month (or more!) I've been slaving over my word processor and animelyrics.com song translations to do a.... songlation (?) of Melissa, my absolute favorite of the FMA openings. I also wanted to be the first to sing it, but... well... Melissa doesn't have a karaoke, and the voice-cancelling thing doesn't work at all. SO, you get the original annoyingly in the background whilst I sing in teh foreground, not always on key and sometimes messing up my own lyrics XD;;

I took a few creative liberties with the translations I found, but those spots are few and far between (one being the last line of the first chorus. It's actually more like "pacify my heart that's made anxious by love" but by the time I wrote what I put, I liked it too much and didn't want to trash it for something potentially less wonderful). Most of the time I poetic-ized it as best I could line by line... that's about where my creativity draws the line XD

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Memories of days, oh so far away, part them with those hands I hold so dearThe sadness in your sigh forever can be conquered only if you tryAah, take my anxious heart and pacify it with your love!

Looking up into tomorrow’s never ending skyI don’t know if I can trust my lost heart to find it’s way all aloneBirds beside me take their leave of me and fly awayI can’t help but wonder if they have a light that helps them guide their way home

Come now, take me on a ride, let me use your wings to soar into the sky Feelings that I thought I had abandoned long ago up on the highest mountain, I wanna fly above them so much higher

Memories of days, oh so far away, part them with those hands I hold so dearThe sadness in your sigh forever can be conquered only if you tryAah, take my anxious heart and pacify it with your love!

I watched intently as the birds flew off into the nightI am trapped forever right here and earth bound with only the wind by my sideInstead of wings there is something I want so much moreTo be leaves, with the soft scent of melissa, dancing ‘round in midair

I try time and time again, to stand up straight and tall but still I topple downBut I’ve learned that this is simply not the answer. I’ll let the wind take me, hold me up and support me, won’t go against it!

Do not hesitate, hold your hands out straight. Take the key that rests within your reachEven if you’re wrong, even if it never opens up again Come on, pick your spirits up and let me hear that lock fall down!

A soul that can’t be saved, see it drift away, fading out until it disappearsThough it may be gone in its wake it leaves a faintly warming glowSee now, the newly moulded sky beginning with a moonlit night!

It works sometimes. Like, I tried it for Shissou from Ouran Highschool Host Club and it killed the vocals DEAD while leaving the music itself mostly intact. I have a feeling that was a one-in-a-lifetime deal, though XD

You do have a nice voice. *nods* Just wondering, did you do a fanversion of Bratja a while back? There was a guy singing for Ed. I noticed that the lyrics didn't match up, at all, with the translations. Not that I don't like it! (In fact, I love it...) I just wanted to know why exactly you changed the lyrics.

Haha, nope, that wasn't me. This is the first time I've done any fanversions of songs ^.^;; I would imagine they did that just because it was easier. It's actually quite a bit more difficult to make words fit with a rythm while trying to convey the same meaning as a translated phrase with a million syllables less/more than what you want. I guess they decided to take the easier route and just make some lyrics for the tune.

1) They're only the TV versions, not the full as this one is.2) Those subs are just straight translations that don't match up with the melody and such of the song itself. These lyrics would be much easier to sing than those, trust me :P